King’s Plate winner Paramount Prince takes on 13 in Breeders’ Stakes
At 10h06, on September 29, 2023 • By WOODBINE
Fourteen 3-year-olds, including King’s Plate winner Paramount Prince and runner-up Elysian Field, Kaukokaipuu, who contested the Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes, and three Kevin Attard trainees, are slated to go postward in Sunday’s $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the third jewel in the OLG Canadian Triple Crown, at Woodbine.
The final event of the tri-surface series for Canadian-bred sophomores concludes on the world-renowned E.P. Taylor Turf Course with the longest leg of 1 ½ miles.
Dual hall of fame conditioner Mark Casse will have two chances to win his fourth Breeders’, having won in 2007 with Marchfield, in 2018 with Neepawa, and last year with Sir For Sure.
This year, he’ll be represented by the formidable one-two punch of Paramount Prince and Elysian Field.
Paramount Prince, who won the Plate Trial, at 1 1/8 miles over the Tapeta on July 23, went on to take the 1 ¼-mile Plate by 1 ½ lengths over a determined Elysian Field.
The son of Society’s Chairman-Platinum Steel, owned by Mike Langlois and Gary Barber, finished a game third in the 1 3/16-mile Prince of Wales at Fort Erie on September 12.
“He was really gutsy in the Prince of Wales,” praised Casse. “(Trainer) Josie Carroll’s horse (Ottawa) ran head-and-head with him three-quarters of the way, and obviously, the pace was very quick, but he is what he is and that’s the way he runs. He ran his butt off, and the winner (Velocitor) ran great and deserved to win.”
The Breeders’ will mark the first time Paramount Prince, bred by Ericka Rusnak, will race on the turf.
